The Aztec people of Mesoamerica led very ordered lives. They
believed in a life after death called Mictlan that was also well
ordered. Mictlan was on nine different levels, and the soul of
a dead person would go to a certain level depending on how they had
died.

This figure is Mictlantecuhtli, the god of the dead who ruled
Mictlan with his wife, Mictlancihuatl. He is usually shown as a
skeleton, or with a skull head, and statues of him have been found
which were spattered with real human blood.